As every website editor knows, if a website is slow or missing essential content, consumers will just click to leave the page, never to return. Security is even more of an important issue. It’s a jungle out there and to make sure you can sleep at night knowing no one has access to your precious website except you, you need to be fully versed in all that’s involved in keeping it safe and secure.

How Does The Course Work?

Whether you’re using WordPress for work or a personal project, like everyone else in today’s frenetic world, you’re busy. That’s why this course is delivered in three easy-to-navigate, interactive chapters that you can settle down and absorb at a time that’s most conducive to you getting the most out of them. You’ll also have the freedom to revisit your learning at any time you want to within the 12-month period that you’re signed up for.

What Does It Cover?

Just as you wouldn’t dream of going to sleep at night unless you knew your doors were locked and your windows were shut, this course leaves no stone unturned when it comes to you creating a secure and smoothly-operating WordPress website. You’ll find out how to detect an intrusion and scan your site making use of free tools, how to restore a WordPress site from backup, how to benchmark your site’s performance and how to keep your database finely tuned. You’ll also gain the knowhow to get your WordPress site performing at the same level as regular HTML websites.

2. WordPress Theme Selection and Customization: Unlock the wonderful world of WordPress themes

Boost your WordPress expertise and create an elegant, user-friendly website that’s just perfect for getting across the message of your business, product or personal project. WordPress is the go-to website for thousands of people all over the world and with its easy-to-use navigation tools and professional results, it’s easy to see why. That said, there’s more to creating a competitive, eye-catching website than just clicking on the first theme you see and adding a few photos. That’s where our comprehensive, easy-to-understand course comes in.

Do I Have Time For It?

Taking the time to learn with our online course will save you far more time in the long run than if you try to pick things up as you go along. Also, our online course, that’s split into 9 easy-to-navigate chapters, is available for you to work through at your own pace at any time within the 12 months you’re signed up for. This means you not only have the flexibility to learn wherever and whenever suits you, you can easily revisit earlier chapters on a need-to-know basis whenever you want.

What Will I Learn?

The course is designed to cover four of the most commercial theme families on the web – StudioPress, ElegantThemes, WooThemes and Thesis. You’ll discover all the places where theme customisations are stored in WordPress and all the security essentials you need to be aware of when working in WordPress. Also, you’ll get to grips with how to create tables in WordPress and ways of implementing sliders. Finally, sourcing high quality content for your website won’t be a problem after you’ve explored our guide to finding professional standard graphics that don’t cost the earth.

3. WordPress Essentials for Business: Push your business acumen to the next level

This course is designed for both small business owners and the self-employed, and focuses on mastering the WordPress basics in order to create visually appealing, fully functional websites that will bring in potential customers in no time at all.

Create Websites With Ease

In a world where the estimated total number of websites in the world has exceeded 1 billion, it’s easy to see why mastering the creation of them should be at the forefront of every business brain. The Internet is the powerhouse of information, and by creating your own websites you can own your niche in next to no time. For business owners, it’s not practical to learn all of the ins and outs of complex website design, but that doesn’t mean that you will have to outsource your website build to a professional. With WordPress, you can learn the fundamentals yourself, and create fantastic websites that use this open source tool and Content Management System (CMS) with professional results.

Use WordPress with Confidence

The course can be studied online, through our courseware, meaning that you can study as and when you are able to. Covering almost all of the WordPress interface, as well as its uses for small businesses, it will help you to build confidence and expertise as you progress. You will be able to apply your knowledge practically, by actively building a website for a client, and will learn all of the major build concepts that come together to produce the final website. The syllabus is broken down into seven modules, which will ensure that the course materials are manageable at every step of the way.

Learn how to manage successful programmes by completing the MSP® Foundation and Practitioner course. Since 1999, the Managing Successful Programmes has been a world-leading qualification for professionals who want to demonstrate industry best practice in project management and business strategy execution.

By covering both beginner and advanced levels, the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) Foundation & Practitioner Package is best suited to:

Project and programme managers who want to sharpen their skills or to earn a globally-recognised qualification.

Project team members who need to better understand and apply the processes involved in their corporate programmes.

Employees who want to improve their chances of promotion.

Individuals who would like to cross-train for a career in programme and project management.

Using a series of instructor led videos and self-study courseware, the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) Foundation & Practitioner Package is delivered online using the learning platform. Using the power of the Internet, course contents are available anyplace anytime, allowing participants to study whenever and wherever is most convenient.

Students can test their progress through each module using the supplied flash cards and educational games; there are also numerous practical examples in each section that students help learners understand the application of the techniques being demonstrated. Students can discuss topics with their peers using the social networking facilities, adding another valuable learning tool by which the can further improve knowledge and skills.

5. Microsoft MCSE Sharepoint 2013 (70331 70332): Get to grips with the important area of business continuity

In the modern workplace, document sharing is a key requirement for many businesses who employ staff who may not all be in the same place at the same time but need a reliable, centralised, password-protected space where they can efficiently share documents. The ability to successfully plan, configure and manage a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 is therefore hugely attractive to employers.

What Does the Course Teach?

Particular areas of focus include implementing high availability, disaster recovery, service application architecture, business connectivity services and social computing features. You’ll also cover productivity and collaboration platforms and features, business intelligence solutions, enterprise content management, web content management infrastructure, solutions and apps. Not only that, you’ll soon be confident optimising the search experience, developing and implementing a governance plan and performing upgrades or migrations to SharePoint Server 2013. At all times you will be encouraged to consider the guidelines and best practices that will enable you to optimise your SharePoint server deployment.

How Do I Learn?

Unlike traditional courses, there is no need to commit to attending a weekly lesson or tackle studying from a boring manual. The self-paced nature of this online course means you can tailor your learning to move as fast or as slow as you wish. Your comprehensive new knowledge of SharePoint will be gained by progressing through the 14 engaging and expert-led modules on your devices, at a time that fits around your existing professional and family commitments. This ensures learning is not only enjoyable but enhanced by the fact that you are in total control of the experience.

For comprehensive information on units of study click the units of study tab above.

This is an incredible opportunity to invest in yourself and your future, sharpen your training skills and learn what it takes to create your own success with Courses For Success Today!

Course Fast Facts:

All courses are easy to follow and understand

12 Month access to course materials

Study as many courses as you want

Delivered 100% on-line and accessible 24/7 from any computer or smartphone

You can study from home or at work, at your own pace, in your own time

Course Delivery

Courses are accessed online by any device including PC, tablet or Smart Phone. Upon purchase an automated welcome email will be sent to you (please check your junk email inbox if not received as this is an automated email), in order for you to access your online course, which is Available 24/7 on any computer or smart mobile device.

Recognition & Accreditation

All students who complete the course receive a downloadable certificate of completion per course.

WordPress Backup Security and Performance 5 Course Bundle includes the following courses, below is a summary of each course:

Course 1 - WordPress Backup Security and Performance

Wordpress Backup

WordPress Backup Concepts

Backup On-Site Using BackWPUp

Backup Off-Site with BackWPUp

On-Demand Backup & Restore with WP Clone

On-Demand Backup & Restore with InfiniteWP

Backup + Manual WordPress Install with FTP & PHPMyAdmin

Restore with FTP & PHPMyAdmin

Wordpress Security

WordPress Security Basics

Scan Your Site with Sucuri & WordFence

Protect Your Site with Better WP Security

Wordpress Performance

Measure Your Site's Speed with Pingdom & Yslow

Add Page Cache with W3 Total Cache

Optimize Database with WP Clean Up

Add CloudFlare Proxy Server & CDN

Course 2 - WordPress Theme Selection and Customization

Intro To Themes

Introduction

How to Choose a Theme

Studiopress Build

Outside Tour of Associate Theme

Inside Tour of Associate & Genesis Themes

Populating Home Page Widget Areas

Adding a Slider

Other StudioPress Examples

Elegant Themes Build

Outside Tour of Elegant Themes Feather Theme

Inside Tour of Feather Theme

Populating the Home Page

Other Elegant Themes Examples

Woothemes Build

WooThemes Fresh News Build

Other WooThemes Examples

Optimizepress Build

Tour of OptimizePress

Creating a Squeeze Page

Creating a Sales Page

Thesis Build

Thesis 1.8 or 2.0?

Thesis 1.8 Installation & Quick Tour

Adding Header & Navbar

Adding Meteor Slider

Adding Center-Page 4x2 Table

Adding Footer Widgets in Thesis

CSS Styling

Firebug CSS Inspector Tool; Creating CSS Overrides

Weaver Build

Weaver Theme Tour

Weaver Theme Options

Responsive Themes

What Is a Responsive Theme?

Course 3 - WordPress Essentials for Business

Wordpress Fundamentals

WordPress: What & Why

WordPress.org or WordPress.com?

What You Will Need

Hosting Wordpress

Understanding Domain, Hosting, & Name Servers

Choosing a Domain Registrar & Hosting Company

Installing WordPress on Your Domain

Building Out Your Site : Content & Navigation

Tour of an Out-of-the-Box WordPress Site

Tour of the WordPress Dashboard

Creating Pages & Posts

Using the Visual Editor

Working with Images

Hyperlinking

Configuring a Blog, Static Site, & Mixed Site

Removing the Home Page Title & Comments Box

Adding a Flat Navigation Bar

Adding a Drop-Down Navigation Bar

Installing a Free Theme

Installing a Commercial Theme

Modifying Your Theme Settings & Adding a Header

Working with the Weaver Theme

Setting Up Post Categories & Blog Pages

Widget & Widget Area

Using the Latest Posts, Post Categories & Custom Menu Widgets

Using the Text Widget to Post Arbitrary Text or Images to Your Sidebar